Matthew 23:14
The woe on those who “devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer” is the reading of the great majority of Greek manuscripts and of Codex Washingtonianus of the fifth century, and the Vulgate has it. Chrysostom preached on it in his homilies on Matthew about AD 390.
The King James Bible
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Read Matthew 23
Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαῖοι, ὑποκριταί, ὅτι κατεσθίετε τὰς οἰκίας τῶν χηρῶν, καὶ προφάσει μακρὰν προσευχόμενοι· διὰ τοῦτο λήψεσθε περισσότερον κρίμα.
Ouai humin grammateis kai Pharisaioi hupokritai hoti katesthiete tas oikias tōn chērōn kai prophasei makran proseuchomenoi dia touto lēpsesthe perissoteron krima
Greek Manuscripts
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Checked against: TAGNT (Robinson–Pierpont)
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Codex Washingtonianus W 032Before verse 13.Checked against: CNTR transcription
Early Translations
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Checked against: Clementine Vulgate (1592)
Church Fathers
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“Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: therefore you shall receive greater damnation.”
Checked against: NPNF1 10
Printed Greek Texts with This Reading
- Textus Receptus · The Greek text the KJV was translated from, as Scrivener printed it (1894)
- Majority Text · The Byzantine text, read by the great majority of Greek manuscripts (Robinson and Pierpont, 2005)
Quotations from the Ante-Nicene and Nicene Fathers translations. Edition data from the Translators Amalgamated Greek NT, STEPBible.org (CC BY). About these texts and witnesses.
